Digital Health CRC and The University of Sydney | May 2020 Update provided by: Dr Anna Janssen Since the Digital Health CRC launched in 2018 the University of Sydney has been a lead partner in the centre. The Digital Health CRC’s mission is to improve the health of Australians and advance the economy through a unique [...]
This month we are pleased to introduce DHIN member Dr Jingjing You. Jingjing is a researcher at Save Sight Institute and she shares with us her work and the benefits of digital health. Please tell us a little bit about yourself I am Jingjing, I am currently working at Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney, despite [...]
We are very pleased to feature research student Nichola Shelton this month. Nichola is looking at the experiences of social interaction for 12-18 year olds with a language disorder in Australia and exploring the ways digital technologies facilitate social communication and how it's used by SLPs in assessment and treatment. Please tell us a little about [...]
This month we virtually interviewed DHIN member Dr Mel Keep, Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead Education. Mel is also the academic heart and soul of eHealth@Sydney and this month Mel has set the challenge to reach out to someone new on the DHIN member list. Please tell us a little bit about yourself Hello, I’m Mel, [...]
Expressions of Interest for the new Discipline of Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health. Due Friday 29th April, 2020. The Discipline of Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health (BIDH) is a newly established discipline in the School of Medical Sciences (SoMS). The School is now accepting expressions of interest from academics in FMH schools who may wish to [...]
Please find below a list of resources, that have been recommended by DHIN members, for anyone in the digital health community. If you have a resource you have found helpful as a digital health researcher, student, or as an interested individual, please contact us and we can add it to this page. General Information NSW Health [...]
This month we spent 5 minutes with Alla Melman. Alla work across both clinical and research worlds and also recently won the Emerging Researchers@Sydney prize for the eHealth design and implementation stream for her presentation 'Virtual Reality exergaming in chronic low back pain'. Please tell us a little about yourself I work across both clinical and [...]
This month we are happy to feature Sarah Barakat. Sarah is a currently completing a combined Master of Clinical Psychology & PhD at the InsideOut Institute for Eating Disorders. Sarah recently won the Emerging Researchers@Sydney prize for the Health communication through technology stream for her presentation 'Binge Eating eTherapy: A randomised controlled trial of an online [...]
This month we are so pleased to welcome and profile Associate Professor Adam Dunn. Adam is the inaugural head of the new Discipline of Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health. We asked Adam about himself and his vision for the new Discipline. Please tell us a little bit about yourself I have been a full-time research academic [...]
By Dr Melanie Keep Academic Lead and Conference Chair, eHealth@Sydney 2020 These days, “interdisciplinary” has become a very fashionable word. It has, however, always been core to eHealth. How do health researchers design, create, implement and evaluate eHealth without collaborating with health services, or colleagues from design, engineering, or marketing? Not very well, I think. We [...]
